Episode 467 [05.07.2013] Karl Denninger
Founder of conservative blog Market-Ticker.org, the Commentary on The Capital Markets, and one of the early members of the Tea Party movement. He was CEO of MCSNet in Chicago, one of the area's first Internet providers.Market-Ticker.org

Episode 465 [01.07.2013] Jim Rogers
Legendary investor. Also an author and financial commentator, frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and most publications dealing with the economy or finance. Jim Rogers Investments

Episode 464 [28.06.2013] Francine McKenna
Twenty-five years experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad.ReTheAuditors.com

Episode 463 [26.06.2013] Andrew McGettigan
Andrew McGettigan writes about higher education. He is the author of The Great University Gamble: money, markets and the future of higher education.
andrewmcgettigan.org

Episode 462 [24.06.2013] Simon Rose
From SaveOurSavers.co.uk, a campaigning website that fights on behalf of savers. "A country without savers is a country without a future."SaveOurSavers.co.uk

Episode 460 [19.06.2013] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 459 [17.06.2013] Luke Rudkowski
Independent video journalist. Obtains controversial interviews with major US political figures (and others) and posts them on the Internet. WeAreChange.org

Episode 457 [12.06.2013] Mark O'Byrne
Works with GoldCore, a precious metals specialist that has evolved into a globally focused Wealth Management Service (regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland). Writes articles in Irish and international financial newspapers, journals and magazines. GoldCore - Profile

Episode 456 [10.06.2013] Mark McGowan
Mark McGowan B.A. is a British street artist, performance artist and prominent public protester who has gone by the artist name Chunky Mark and more recently The Artist Taxi Driver.
Mark McGowan

Episode 455 [08.06.2013] Mort Sahl
Canadian-born American comedian and actor. A comedy legend, he occasionally wrote jokes for speeches delivered by President John F. Kennedy.
Mort Sahl

Episode 454 [06.06.2013] Alasdair MacLeod
Head of Research at Goldmoney.com, he first became a stockbroker in 1970 and a Member of the London Stock Exchange in 1974. His experience encompasses equity and bond markets, fund management, corporate finance and investment strategy. After 27 years in the City he moved to Guernsey, where he advised a variety of offshore institutions as a consultant, becoming an executive director for an offshore bank in Guernsey and Jersey.
Goldmoney.com

Episode 453 [03.06.2013] Charlie Skelton
Comedy writer, journalist and actor from Suffolk, England. He has written for 10 O'Clock Live and 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Eleven O'Clock Show, Have I Got News For You and FAQ U. His articles on the Bilderberg Group for The Guardian have been especially popular.
Charlie Skelton (profile, The Guardian)

Episode 452 [30.05.2013] George Galloway
George Galloway is a British politician, writer, and broadcaster, and the Respect Party Member of Parliament for Bradford West. He is known for his often controversial views and has strong connections with the Middle East.
George Galloway

Episode 450 [27.05.2013] James Howard Kunstler
American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency (2005), where he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. He has written a science fiction novel conjecturing such a culture in the future, World Made by Hand, in 2008.Kunstler.comKunstler.com - Blog

Episode 449 [24.05.2013]
andEpisode 448 [22.05.2013] James G. Rickards
American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital (www.tangentcapital.com) and author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis." Currency Wars

Episode 447 [21.05.2013] Sandeep Jaitly
Student of Professor Antal E. Fekete. Runs BullionBasis, described as "the practical representation of the works of Professor Antal E. Fekete by his student Sandeep Jaitly."Fekete ResearchBullionBasis

Episode 446 [17.05.2013] Dr. Michael Hudson
President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of The Bubble and Beyond (2012), Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and The Myth of Aid (1971).Michael-Hudson.com

Episode 445 [15.05.2013] John Butler
Partner at Amphora Capital. Most recently he was Managing Director and Head of the Index Strategies Group at Deutsche Bank in London, where he was responsible for the development and marketing of proprietary, index-based quantitative strategies for global interest rate markets. Amphora Capital

Episode 444 [13.05.2013] Mark Campanale and Luke Sussams
The Carbon Tracker initiative is the first project of Investor Watch, a non-profit company established by its directors to align the capital markets with efforts to tackle climate change.
CarbonTracker.org

Episode 443 [12.05.2013] Frankie Boyle
Scottish comedian and writer, well known for his pessimistic and often controversial sense of humour.
Frankie Boyle

Episode 442 [08.05.2013] Pierre Jovanovic
Author of "Blythe Masters." Pierre Jovanovic traces in this book how the fate of this young Cambridge graduate unwittingly crossed that of hundreds of millions of people made unemployed by the effects of the crisis, simply because all the bankers of the world have listened, fascinated, to the Gospel of Credit Default Swaps to the point that they eventually copy and abusing the "magic" formula.Jovanovic.com

Episode 441 [06.05.2013] Detlev Schlichter
Writer and Austrian School economist. He had a 19-year career in financial markets, working at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a derivatives trader and portfolio manager in Frankfurt and London between 1990-98 before moving to Mercury Asset Management in London. He is the author of "Paper Money Collapse - The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown" (John Wiley & Sons, September 2011).Paper Money Collapse

Episode 440 [04.05.2013] Alasdair MacLeod
Head of Research at Goldmoney.com, he first became a stockbroker in 1970 and a Member of the London Stock Exchange in 1974. His experience encompasses equity and bond markets, fund management, corporate finance and investment strategy. After 27 years in the City he moved to Guernsey, where he advised a variety of offshore institutions as a consultant, becoming an executive director for an offshore bank in Guernsey and Jersey.
Goldmoney.com

Episode 438 [29.04.2013] Satyajit Das
Author of "Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk" (Financial Times Series), about how voodoo banking continues to generate massive phony profits.Economonitor Profile - Das

Episode 437 [26.04.2013] Mark Melin
Host of The Opalesque Uncorrelated Investments Show, a program that focuses on investments that exhibit a lack of dependence on economic strength and stock market performance.Opalesque TV - Video

Episode 434 [19.04.2013] Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics.PaulCraigRoberts.org

Episode 433 [17.04.2013] Ed Harrison
Founder of Credit Writedowns and a former finance and technology executive with over twenty years of business experience. He is also a regular economic and financial commentator on BBC World News, CNBC Television, Business News Network, CBC Canada, Fox Television and RT Television. He started his career as a diplomat and speaks six languages, a skill he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College. Credit Writedowns

Episode 431 [12.04.2013] James Turk
James Turk has specialised in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics. He founded GoldMoney.com, which was launched in 2001 and is a director of the GoldMoney Foundation.GoldMoney.com

Episode 429 [08.04.2013] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 428 [05.04.2013] Simon Rose
From SaveOurSavers.co.uk, a campaigning website that fights on behalf of savers. "A country without savers is a country without a future."SaveOurSavers.co.uk

Episode 427 [03.04.2013] David Morgan
A precious metals aficionado with degrees in finance, economics and engineering, he created the Silver-Investor.com website and originated The Morgan Report, "Money, Metals and Mining, from David Morgan, a monthly publication covering economic news, the financial health of the global economy, imminent currency problems and reasons for investing in precious metals. Silver-Investor.com

Episode 426 [01.04.2013] William Mook
Entrepreneur and inventor who believes banks will no longer be needed in the near future and that 3D printing will make factories obsolete.
William Mook

Episode 425 [29.03.2013] Rowan Bosworth-Davies
A former financial fraud detective, Rowan Bosworth-Davies now advises financial institutions on the best way to comply with all the conflicting regulations and laws designed to prevent and forestall money laundering.
Rowans-blog

Episode 421 [21.03.2013] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 419 [15.03.2013] James G. Rickards
American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital (www.tangentcapital.com) and author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis." Currency Wars

Episode 418 [13.03.2013] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 417 [11.03.2013] Gail Tverberg
An actuary interested in finite world issues - oil depletion, natural gas depletion, water shortages, and climate change. To this brief bio she adds: "The financial system is also likely to be affected." Our Finite World

Episode 416 [8.03.2013] Charles Hugh Smith
Novelist (including "I-State Lines" and "Kama Sutra Cadillac"), economic commentator, and author of the online blog OfTwoMinds.com. He has also written An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times.OfTwoMinds.com

Episode 414 [04.03.2013] Pierre Jovanovic
Author of "Blythe Masters." Pierre Jovanovic traces in this book how the fate of this young Cambridge graduate unwittingly crossed that of hundreds of millions of people made unemployed by the effects of the crisis, simply because all the bankers of the world have listened, fascinated, to the Gospel of Credit Default Swaps to the point that they eventually copy and abusing the "magic" formula.Jovanovic.com

Episode 412 [28.02.2013]
andEpisode 411 [25.02.2013] Professor Antal Fekete
Hungarian mathematician and renowned monetary scientist, famed for establishing the New Austrian School of Economics. Formerly he was Visiting Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and Senior Editor for The American Economic Foundation. His writings, both scholarly and journalistic, provide penetrating insights into the operation of the world's financial systems.Professor Fekete

Episode 410 [23.02.2013] Professor Constantin Gurdgiev
Head of Research for St. Columbanus AG, and the Adjunct Lecturer in Finance, Trinity College, Dublin.True Economics

Episode 409 [20.02.2013] Paul Moore
Former Head of Risk at HBOS, he came to public attention as a whistleblower in the banking crisis of late 2008. Was subsequently fired by Sir James Crosby, then CEO at HBOS, who in turn had to resign as Deputy Director at the FSA when Moore disclosed full details of HBOS's excessive risk-taking to the UK's Treasury Select Committee.Twitter.com/Paul_R_Moore

Episode 408 [19.02.2013] Chris Cook
Former compliance and market supervision director of the International Petroleum Exchange in London and active in the creation of the Iranian Oil Bourse.Naked Oil

Episode 406 [14.02.2013] Dr David Graeber
American anthropologist and anarchist who is Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Author of Debt: The First 5000 Years.The White Review - Interview

Episode 405 [12.02.2013] Sandeep Jaitly
Student of Professor Antal E. Fekete. Runs BullionBasis, described as "the practical representation of the works of Professor Antal E. Fekete by his student Sandeep Jaitly."Fekete ResearchBullionBasis

Episode 403 [07.02.2013] John Butler
Partner at Amphora Capital. Most recently he was Managing Director and Head of the Index Strategies Group at Deutsche Bank in London, where he was responsible for the development and marketing of proprietary, index-based quantitative strategies for global interest rate markets. Amphora Capital

Episode 402 [05.02.2013] Simon Rose
From SaveOurSavers.co.uk, a campaigning website that fights on behalf of savers. "A country without savers is a country without a future."SaveOurSavers.co.uk

Episode 401 [02.02.2013] Rowan Bosworth-Davies
A former financial fraud detective, Rowan Bosworth-Davies now advises financial institutions on the best way to comply with all the conflicting regulations and laws designed to prevent and forestall money laundering.
Rowans-blog

Episode 399 [29.01.2013] Annie Machon
Former MI5 agent turned whistleblower. She runs the website Using Our Intelligence and pursues a career as a public speaker, writer, media pundit, international tour and event organiser, political campaigner, and PR consultant.Annie Machon

Episode 398 [26.01.2013] Professor Steven A. Ramirez
Former Enforcement Attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He is the author of "Lawless Capitalism: The Subprime Crisis and the Case for an Economic Rule of Law." He is on the Faculty of the School of Law at Loyola University.Professor Steven A. Ramirez

Episode 396 [22.01.2013] Alex Jones
Syndicated radio journalist and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones has been on the front lines of the growing global information war from ground zero to the occult playgrounds of the power-mad elite. His radio show The Alex Jones Show is a nationally syndicated news/talk show based out of Austin, TX. It is syndicated by the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM and FM radio stations across the United States, as well as having a large internet based audience.InfoWars.com

Episode 395 [19.01.2013] Doug Casey
Founder of Casey Research, an organization that aims to enable "self-directed investors to earn superior returns through innovative investment research designed to take advantage of market dislocations." Doug Casey

Episode 394 [17.01.2013] Nick Dunbar
Bloomberg journalist and author of The Devil's Derivatives and Inventing Money. In 2003 he broke the story of Greece hiding debt using swaps with Goldman Sachs. From 2001 to 2010 he wrote a column called Risky Finance for the financial commentary service Reuters Breakingviews.NickDunbar.net

Episode 393 [15.01.2013] David Hales
Senior research fellow at The Open University in the UK. Does research at the overlap between computer science and social science. He writes: "Recently I have become interested in how open distributed systems might provide novel ways to support financial functions without the need for centralised institutions such as banks."CFPM.org - Profile

Episode 392 [12.01.2013] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 391 [10.01.2013] Satyajit Das
Author of "Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk" (Financial Times Series), about how voodoo banking continues to generate massive phony profits.Economonitor Profile - Das

Episode 390 [08.01.2013] Dan Collins
Author of TheChinaMoneyReport.com, an investment publication for people interested in Chinese equities traded in Hong Kong, Mainland China, or in the United States. 15 years experience as a private investor in Mainland China.TheChinaMoneyReport.com

Episode 389 [05.01.2013] Captain Paul Watson
31 years at the helm of the world's most active marine non-profit organization - Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In 1978, with financial support from Cleveland Amory of the Fund for Animals, the Society purchased its first ship (a British sea trawler Westella) and renamed it the Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd has embarked on over 200 voyages covering many of the world's oceans and defending and saving defenseless marine life all along the way.SeaShepherd.org - Captain Paul Watson

Episode 388 [03.01.2013] John Perry Barlow
A founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and author of "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," an influential early paper on the appropriateness of governing the rapidly growing internet.Electronic Frontier Foundation

Episode 386 [29.12.2012] Professor Jonathan Feldman
Associate Professor at Stockholm University in the International Relations unit at the Department of Economic History. He is also a governor of the Global Teach-In which is building on the work of the late Barry Commoner to instigate a comprehensive program for economic change. This networked link-up explores how the crises of ecology, energy and economics are related to each other and what can be done about them.Global Teach-In

Episode 385 [27.12.2012] Gerald Celente
American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets.Trends Research Institute

Episode 384 [25.12.2012] John Cooper Clarke
Punk poet whose "biting, satirical, political and very funny verse" brought him fame in the 70s. Three of his poems are now in the GCSE syllabus, including one called Twat.John Cooper Clarke

Episode 384 [25.12.2012] John Cooper Clarke
Punk poet whose "biting, satirical, political and very funny verse" brought him fame in the 70s. Three of his poems are now in the GCSE syllabus, including one called Twat.John Cooper Clarke

Episode 381 [18.12.2012] Sandeep Jaitly
Student of Professor Antal E. Fekete. Runs BullionBasis, described as "the practical representation of the works of Professor Antal E. Fekete by his student Sandeep Jaitly."Fekete ResearchBullionBasis

Episode 380 [15.12.2012] Peter Antonioni
Senior Teaching Fellow and resident non-linear thinker in the department of Management Science and Innovation at University College London and author of Economics for Dummies.
Peter Antonioni profile

Episode 379 [13.12.2012] Kyra Maya Phillips
Co-author with Alexa Clay of The Misfit Economy (soon to be a book published by Simon & Schuster), the thesis of which is that "bottoms-up, informal, and black market economies may have something to teach the traditional economy about ingenuity, entrepreneurialism and human resilience." Some of their research has already been placed online.
MisfitEconomy.com

Episode 378 [11.12.2012] David Smith
British/Swiss dual national, with a law degree and a chartered accounting qualification. His background includes positions in general management, finance, private equity, start ups, business development, M&A, turnarounds and trust & family office work. He has worked for major Swiss and US multinationals, global banks, and UHNW businesses.
Geneva Business Insider

Episode 376 [06.12.2012] Tim Street
Director of UK Uncut Legal Action, an organization that campaigns for legal action against HM Revenue and Customs for letting Goldman Sachs get away with what it believes is tax-avoidance on a large scale. It also campaigns against Starbucks and other multinational tax avoiders. UK Uncut Legal Action

Episode 375 [04.12.2012] Ned Naylor-Leyland
Investment Director, Cheviot Asset Management. Began his career in 2001 at Neilson Management, later moving to Smith & Williamson (formerly NCL Investments) in 2003 where he was an Investment Manager. Ned joined Cheviot in July 2008 and is Advising a specialist Precious Metals fund.Cheviot Asset Management

Episode 374 [01.12.2012] Andy Bichlbaum
Teaches as an Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University and one of the leading members of The Yes Men, a culture jamming activist group. Andrew Birchlbaum (The Yes Men)

Episode 373 [29.11.2012] Andrew Ross
Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Much of his writing focuses on labor, the urban environment, and the organization of work. In Richard Posner's 2003 study, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline he was ranked among the top 100 public intellectuals in the U.S. Andrew Ross

Episode 372 [27.11.2012] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 369 [20.11.2012] Ross Ashcroft
Filmmaker - writer and director of Four Horsemen, about why many people didn't see the financial crisis and what can be done to regain control of the financial system; founder of Motherlode Studios and contributor to Renegade Economist.RenegadeEconomist.com

Episode 368 [17.11.2012] James Turk
James Turk has specialised in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics. He founded GoldMoney.com, which was launched in 2001 and is a director of the GoldMoney Foundation.GoldMoney.com

Episode 367 [15.11.2012] Francine McKenna
Twenty-five years experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad.ReTheAuditors.com

Episode 366 [13.11.2012] Teri Buhl
Connecticut-based Wall Street investigative reporter who has written for the Greenwich Time, Hearst CT Newspapers, Forbes Magazine and many other top journals. She says: "I was raised a Reagan Republican and believe in free markets but don't let me catch you abusing them or you'll end up in one of my stories."TeriBuhl.com

Episode 365 [10.11.2012] Tuur Demeester
Writer and editor in chief of the financial newsletter MacroTrends (a monthly publication, written in Dutch). The newsletter's macro-economic analysis is focused on the E.U., the stocks recommended are mainly commodities and precious metals based. In 2007 Tuur Demeester was a co-founder of the Murray Rothbard Institute.Tuur Demeester

Episode 364 [8.11.2012] Ned Naylor-Leyland
Investment Director, Cheviot Asset Management. Began his career in 2001 at Neilson Management, later moving to Smith & Williamson (formerly NCL Investments) in 2003 where he was an Investment Manager. Ned joined Cheviot in July 2008 and is Advising a specialist Precious Metals fund.Cheviot Asset Management

Episode 363 [6.11.2012] Simon Rose
From SaveOurSavers.co.uk, a campaigning website that fights on behalf of savers. "A country without savers is a country without a future."SaveOurSavers.co.uk

Episode 362 [3.11.2012] Nomi Prins
Author, journalist, speaker and a senior fellow at Demos. Most recent novel is "Black Tuesday" - "A vivid tableau of New York on the brink of the Stock Market Crash of 1929." Also author of "Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America" (The New Press, October 2004), a devastating exposé into corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception. NomiPrins.com

Episode 361 [1.11.2012] John Butler
Partner at Amphora Capital. Most recently he was Managing Director and Head of the Index Strategies Group at Deutsche Bank in London, where he was responsible for the development and marketing of proprietary, index-based quantitative strategies for global interest rate markets. Amphora Capital

Episode 360 [30.10.2012] John Logan Jones
Republican Candidate for Maine's State House District 112 in 2012. John Logan Jones ran to restore local control to Falmouth and relieve the burden of debt on future generations.John Logan Jones

Episode 357 [23.10.2012] Kwasi Kwarteng
A Member of Parliament in the UK and author of Britannia Unchained, about the golden egg of fraud in the City of London.Kwasi Kwarteng

Episode 356 [20.10.2012] Michael Krieger
Investment adviser and blogger, runs Krieger Asset Management. His mission is to write and educate people across the country on what is happening and how to protect against it. Michael Krieger (Liberty Blitzkrieg)

Episode 355 [18.10.2012] James G. Rickards
American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital (www.tangentcapital.com) and author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis." Currency Wars

Episode 354 [15.10.2012] Rowan Bosworth-Davies
A former financial fraud detective, Rowan Bosworth-Davies now advises financial institutions on the best way to comply with all the conflicting regulations and laws designed to prevent and forestall money laundering.
Rowans-blog

Episode 353 [13.10.2012] Nick Verbitsky
Nick Verbitsky is CEO of Blue Chip Films, Llc, and is the director and producer of "Confidence Game," a film that examines the demise of investment bank Bear Stearns. Mr Verbitsky also produced three episodes of the TV series "Secret Lives of Women."
IMDB entry: Nick Verbitsky

Episode 351 [09.10.2012] Aston Walker
Award-winning Birmingham, UK film-maker who was sent to prison for 16 months for looting a clothes shop in the 2011 riots. At his trial, Judge Melbourne Inman QC commented: "Yours is a sad case in many ways Mr Walker." Sad, perhaps, that he does not have an equal opportunity to loot as a City banker, suggests Max...
Occupii.org

Episode 350 [06.10.2012] William K. Black
American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law - Profile

Episode 349 [04.10.2012] Dr. Michael Hudson
President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).Michael-Hudson.com

Episode 348 [02.10.2012] Jaromil
One of the original hackers and long-time activist within the free software movement, Jaromil (Denis Roio) has made significant contributions to the development of multimedia and streaming applications on the Linux platform.
Bitcoin Presentation, YouTube

Episode 347 [29.09.2012] Will Carless
Investigative journalist, a frequest contributor to the New York Times and the winner of local journalism awards in San Diego where he's uncovered wrongdoing by public officials and real estate developers. VoiceOfSanDiego

Episode 346 [27.09.2012] Detlev Schlichter
Writer and Austrian School economist. He had a 19-year career in financial markets, working at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a derivatives trader and portfolio manager in Frankfurt and London between 1990-98 before moving to Mercury Asset Management in London. He is the author of "Paper Money Collapse - The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown" (John Wiley & Sons, September 2011).Paper Money Collapse

Episode 345 [25.09.2012] Frank Braun
Privacy activist/extremist and IT Security Consultant. Runs ShadowLife which "aims to become the single stop source for user-centered coverage of privacy technology, news and lifestyle." Spoke at Libertopia 2012 (see this excellent speakers' list) ShadowLife

Episode 344 [22.09.2012] Richard Stallman
With the launch of the GNU Project, Richard Stallman initiated the free software movement and in 1985 founded the Free Software Foundation. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989.League for Programming Freedom

Episode 343 [20.09.2012] James G. Rickards
American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital (www.tangentcapital.com) and author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis." Currency Wars

Episode 342 [18.09.2012] Chris Cook
Former compliance and market supervision director of the International Petroleum Exchange in London and active in the creation of the Iranian Oil Bourse.Naked Oil

Episode 341 [15.09.2012] Joshua Mellors
Joshua is studying for a Masters in economics and finance at SOAS, University of London, and was previously an intern at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago. His academic background is in history and economics and he is interested in the political economy of financialisation.SocialJusticeFirst.com/

Episode 340 [13.09.2012] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 337 [06.09.2012] Catherine Austin Fitts
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner, Catherine was one of the first to warn of an approaching housing bubble. Her prediction that a 'strong dollar policy' would ultimately lead to a weakened federal credit has proven correct. Runs the Solari Report, a private briefing for subscribers by bridge call with Catherine and her guests focused on current financial and precious metal markets, geopolitical events as well as risk issues and opportunities impacting personal wealth. The Solari Report

Episode 336 [04.09.2012] Karl Denninger
Founder of conservative blog Market-Ticker.org, the Commentary on The Capital Markets, and one of the early members of the Tea Party movement. He was CEO of MCSNet in Chicago, one of the area's first Internet providers.Market-Ticker.org

Episode 335 [01.09.2012] John Rubino
Author of popular books on finance, including Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green-Tech Boom (Wiley, 2008), and (with co-author James Turk) The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It (Doubleday, 2007). He also writes for CFA Magazine.
Dollarcollapse.com

Episode 334 [30.08.2012] Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam
Of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), an independent academic research and educational institution that studies how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interacts with its environment.
New England Complex Systems Institute

Episode 333 [28.08.2012] David Smith
British/Swiss dual national, with a law degree and a chartered accounting qualification. His background includes positions in general management, finance, private equity, start ups, business development, M&A, turnarounds and trust & family office work. He has worked for major Swiss and US multinationals, global banks, and UHNW businesses.
Geneva Business Insider

Episode 331 [23.08.2012] Dmitry Orlov
Author of "Reinventing Collapse," first published in 2008 before the financial crisis began later that year. In a new edition Orlov expands on his attempt to convince you that the U.S. is much less prepared for collapse than the Soviet Union ever was.Club Orlov

Episode 330 [22.08.2012] Ned Naylor-Leyland
Investment Director, Cheviot Asset Management. Began his career in 2001 at Neilson Management, later moving to Smith & Williamson (formerly NCL Investments) in 2003 where he was an Investment Manager. Ned joined Cheviot in July 2008 and is Advising a specialist Precious Metals fund.Cheviot Asset Management

Episode 329 [18.08.2012] David Morgan
A precious metals aficionado with degrees in finance, economics and engineering, he created the Silver-Investor.com website and originated The Morgan Report, "Money, Metals and Mining, from David Morgan, a monthly publication covering economic news, the financial health of the global economy, imminent currency problems and reasons for investing in precious metals. Silver-Investor.com

Episode 328 [16.08.2012] Sandeep Jaitly
Student of Professor Antal E. Fekete. Runs BullionBasis, described as "the practical representation of the works of Professor Antal E. Fekete by his student Sandeep Jaitly."Fekete ResearchBullionBasis

Episode 326 [11.08.2012] Karl Denninger
Founder of conservative blog Market-Ticker.org, the Commentary on The Capital Markets, and one of the early members of the Tea Party movement. He was CEO of MCSNet in Chicago, one of the area's first Internet providers.Market-Ticker.org

Episode 325 [09.08.2012] Paul Moore
Former Head of Risk at HBOS, he came to public attention as a whistleblower in the banking crisis of late 2008. Was subsequently fired by Sir James Crosby, then CEO at HBOS, who in turn had to resign as Deputy Director at the FSA when Moore disclosed full details of HBOS's excessive risk-taking to the UK's Treasury Select Committee.Twitter.com/Paul_R_Moore

Episode 323 [04.08.2012] James Howard Kunstler
American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency (2005), where he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. He has written a science fiction novel conjecturing such a culture in the future, World Made by Hand, in 2008.Kunstler.comKunstler.com - Blog

Episode 322 [02.08.2012] Birgitta Jonsdottir
A member of parliament of Althing, the Icelandic parliament, formerly representing the Citizens' Movement, but now representing The Movement. She is also a poet, writer, artist, editor, publisher, activist and has used the internet for these activities.This Is - Profile

Episode 321 [01.08.2012] Teri Buhl
Connecticut-based Wall Street investigative reporter who has written for the Greenwich Time, Hearst CT Newspapers, Forbes Magazine and many other top journals. She says: "I was raised a Reagan Republican and believe in free markets but don't let me catch you abusing them or you'll end up in one of my stories."TeriBuhl.com

Episode 319 [26.07.2012] Mark O'Byrne
Works with GoldCore, a precious metals specialist that has evolved into a globally focused Wealth Management Service (regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland). Writes articles in Irish and international financial newspapers, journals and magazines. GoldCore - Profile

Episode 318 [24.07.2012] Roseanne Barr
Actress, comedian, producer, director and writer and a supporter of the #occupywallstreet movement. And a would-be presidential candidate in 2011.Roseanne World

Episode 317 [21.07.2012] Wolf Richter
Has over twenty years of C-level operations and finance experience and is author of "Big Like: Cascade into an Odyssey" - described as "a startling, funny, cynical, & culturally intense memoir of an almost regular guy who loses his moorings in Japan." He is founder of the website Testosteronepit.com.Testosteronepit.com

Episode 316 [19.07.2012] James G. Rickards
American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital (www.tangentcapital.com) and author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis." Currency Wars

Episode 315 [16.07.2012] Chris Cook
Former compliance and market supervision director of the International Petroleum Exchange in London and active in the creation of the Iranian Oil Bourse.Naked Oil

Episode 314 [14.07.2012] Rob Kirby
A former worker in major financial houses in Canada, Rob Kirby currently concentrates on examining what he calls the "gold price suppression movement." He says: "Our way of life is in jeopardy and I fear for my daughter's [and everyone else's kids for that matter] future." Kirby Analytics

Episode 313 [12.07.2012] Ian Fraser
Journalist, blogger and broadcaster who is also consulting editor and a blogger on Bloomsbury Publishing PLC's QFinance project and an associate lecturer at the University of Stirling. IanFraser.org

Episode 312 [10.07.2012] Ellen Brown
Author of eleven books, including the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy (with Dr. Lynne Walker) and, recently, Web of Debt - an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back.EllenBrown.comWeb of Debt

Episode 311 [07.07.2012] Kevin Sara
Founder and CEO of the TuNur solar export project of Tunisia. He has been involved with start-ups and entrepreneurs throughout most of his career, and has worked at both Salomon Brothers and Nomura International. Nur Energie

Episode 310 [05.07.2012] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 309 [03.07.2012] Teri Buhl
Connecticut-based Wall Street investigative reporter who has written for the Greenwich Time, Hearst CT Newspapers, Forbes Magazine and many other top journals. She says: "I was raised a Reagan Republican and believe in free markets but don't let me catch you abusing them or you'll end up in one of my stories."TeriBuhl.com

Episode 308 [30.06.2012] Michael Krieger
Investment adviser and blogger, runs Krieger Asset Management. His mission is to write and educate people across the country on what is happening and how to protect against it. Michael Krieger (Liberty Blitzkrieg)

Episode 307 [28.06.2012] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 305 [25.06.2012] Professor Constantin Gurdgiev
Head of Research for St. Columbanus AG, and the Adjunct Lecturer in Finance, Trinity College, Dublin.True Economics

Episode 304 [21.06.2012] Satyajit Das
Author of "Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk" (Financial Times Series), about how voodoo banking continues to generate massive phony profits.Economonitor Profile - Das

Episode 303 [19.06.2012] Moncef Cheikhrouhou
Economist, professor and Member of Parliament in Tunisia. He studied in France where he took a degree in mechanical engineering, then, after emigrating to the Soviet Union, went on to obtain MBA and PhD at UC Berkeley. TED participation

Episode 302 [16.06.2012] Brett Scott
Financial activist and writer. Runs The Finance Innovation Lab, a forum to connect people who want to create a financial system that sustains people and planet.The Finance Innovation Lab

Episode 301 [14.06.2012] Dr. Yanis Varoufakis
Says he is "a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist." Has taught at the University of Essex, the University of East Anglia, the University of Cambridge, University of Sydney, University of Glasgow, University of Athens, etc. Says: "My break from Britain occurred in 1987 on the night of Mrs Thatcher's third election victory. It was too much to bear."Yanis Varoufakis

Episode 300 [12.06.2012] Charles Hugh Smith
Novelist (including "I-State Lines" and "Kama Sutra Cadillac"), economic commentator, and author of the online blog OfTwoMinds.com. He has also written An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times.OfTwoMinds.com

Episode 299 [09.06.2012] Pierre Jovanovic
Author of "Blythe Masters." Pierre Jovanovic traces in this book how the fate of this young Cambridge graduate unwittingly crossed that of hundreds of millions of people made unemployed by the effects of the crisis, simply because all the bankers of the world have listened, fascinated, to the Gospel of Credit Default Swaps to the point that they eventually copy and abusing the "magic" formula.Jovanovic.com

Episode 297 [05.06.2012] Detlev Schlichter
Writer and Austrian School economist. He had a 19-year career in financial markets, working at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a derivatives trader and portfolio manager in Frankfurt and London between 1990-98 before moving to Mercury Asset Management in London. He is the author of "Paper Money Collapse - The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown" (John Wiley & Sons, September 2011).Paper Money Collapse

Episode 296 [01.06.2012] Simon Rose
From SaveOurSavers.co.uk, a campaigning website that fights on behalf of savers. "A country without savers is a country without a future."SaveOurSavers.co.uk

Episode 294 [29.05.2012] Jan Skoyles
From TheRealAsset.co.uk, a secure market place for individuals to buy and own precious metals, such as gold and silver bullion. She wants UK to buy back its gold.TheRealAsset.co.uk

Episode 293 [26.05.2012] Luke Rudkowski
Independent video journalist. Obtains controversial interviews with major US political figures (and others) and posts them on the Internet. WeAreChange.org

Episode 292 [24.05.2012] Teri Buhl
Connecticut-based Wall Street investigative reporter who has written for the Greenwich Time, Hearst CT Newspapers, Forbes Magazine and many other top journals. She says: "I was raised a Reagan Republican and believe in free markets but don't let me catch you abusing them or you'll end up in one of my stories."TeriBuhl.com

Episode 291 [22.05.2012] Francine McKenna
Twenty-five years experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad.ReTheAuditors.com

Episode 289 [17.05.2012] Mike Maloney
Founder of GoldSilver.com, Mike Maloney is a nationally recognized authority on monetary history, economics, and financial literacy. Widely regarded as a leading expert on economic cycles, he has demonstrated to audiences throughout the United States that economic cycles are real and that investing correctly for each phase of the economic cycle is a road to true wealth. A dedicated audiophile, his revolutionary stereo designs are on permanent display at the Royal Victoria & Albert Museum in London.GoldSilver.com

Episode 288 [15.05.2012] Nomi Prins
Author, journalist, speaker and a senior fellow at Demos. Most recent novel is "Black Tuesday" - "A vivid tableau of New York on the brink of the Stock Market Crash of 1929." Also author of "Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America" (The New Press, October 2004), a devastating exposé into corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception. See also Episodes 235, 149, 117.NomiPrins.com

Episode 287 [12.05.2012] John Titus
Producer of the tv/video documentary, Bailout, about how corrupt banks have destroyed the American Dream for millions of homeowners. It has been described as a "masterful job of describing the crony path chosen by American elites following the crisis."Bailout

Episode 284 [05.05.2012] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 283 [03.05.2012] Gerald Celente
American trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets.Trends Research Institute

Episode 282 [01.05.2012] Andy Stepanian
Social justice activist, artist, and co-founder of The Sparrow Project, a grassroots PR outfit that brings together popular culture, the arts, and revolutionary activism.The Sparrow Project

Episode 281 [28.04.2012] Dr David Graeber
American anthropologist and anarchist who is Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Author of Debt: The First 5000 Years.The White Review - Interview

Episode 280 [26.04.2012] Reverend Billy
Founder of The Church of Earthalujah, a New York City based radical performance community, with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands. Events include impromptu demos in high street banks. Organization urges us to "stop shopping" in order to save the planet.RevBilly.com

Episode 279 [24.04.2012] Dr. Michael Hudson
President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).Michael-Hudson.com

Episode 278 [22.04.2012] Alec Empire
German musician, best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. He is also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, and has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk. On the Keiser Report he speaks about copyright issues.Atari Teenage Riot

Episode 274 [12.04.2012] Professor Constantin Gurdgiev
Head of Research for St. Columbanus AG, and the Adjunct Lecturer in Finance, Trinity College, Dublin.True Economics

Episode 273 [10.04.2012] Pierre Jovanovic
Author of "Blythe Masters." Pierre Jovanovic traces in this book how the fate of this young Cambridge graduate unwittingly crossed that of hundreds of millions of people made unemployed by the effects of the crisis, simply because all the bankers of the world have listened, fascinated, to the Gospel of Credit Default Swaps to the point that they eventually copy and abusing the "magic" formula.Jovanovic.com

Episode 272 [07.04.2012] Michel Bauwens
Founder of the P2P Foundation which studies the impact of peer to peer technology and thought on society. The P2P Foundation carries this admirable quote from Buckminster Fuller on its front page: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."P2P Foundation

Episode 271 [05.04.2012] James G. Rickards
American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital (www.tangentcapital.com) and author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis." Currency Wars

Episode 270 [03.04.2012] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 268 [29.03.2012] Joshua M Brown
New York City-based investment advisor (at Fusion Analytics) for high net worth individuals, charitable foundations, retirement plans and corporations. Is author of Backstage Wall Street: An Insider's Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments.The Reformed Broker

Episode 265 [22.03.2012] Mark Melin
Host of The Opalesque Uncorrelated Investments Show, a program that focuses on investments that exhibit a lack of dependence on economic strength and stock market performance.Opalesque TV - Video

Episode 264 [20.03.2012] Tomas Kalnoky (Toh Kay)
Musician with Streetlight Manifesto, an American skapunk band with very strong punk influences that is often credited with starting the fourth wave of ska. Has thoughts on intellectual property, copyright, etc. Wants to be the first band to sell no records while the RIAA and record industry executives crash and burn with their dying model.Streetlight Manifesto

Episode 263 [16.03.2012] William Gagan and Geoff Shively
Filmmakers who make crowd-funded movies on political subjects. Have traveled in Syria and have acquired drone helicopters for reporting on the Nato summit. Journalist William Gagan and videographer Geoff Shively entered Syria to see, first-hand, conditions close to the border with Turkey.SEOVideoTraining - Geoff Shively

Episode 262 [15.03.2012] Mark O'Byrne
Works with GoldCore, a precious metals specialist that has evolved into a globally focused Wealth Management Service (regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland). Writes articles in Irish and international financial newspapers, journals and magazines. GoldCore - Profile

Episode 261 [13.03.2012] David Morgan
A precious metals aficionado with degrees in finance, economics and engineering, he created the Silver-Investor.com website and originated The Morgan Report, "Money, Metals and Mining, from David Morgan, a monthly publication covering economic news, the financial health of the global economy, imminent currency problems and reasons for investing in precious metals. Silver-Investor.com

Episode 260 [10.03.2012] Teri Buhl
Connecticut-based Wall Street investigative reporter who has written for the Greenwich Time, Hearst CT Newspapers, Forbes Magazine and many other top journals. She says: "I was raised a Reagan Republican and believe in free markets but don't let me catch you abusing them or you'll end up in one of my stories."TeriBuhl.com

Episode 259 [08.03.2012] Dr. Michael Hudson
President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).Michael-Hudson.com

Episode 258 [06.03.2012] Satyajit Das
Author of "Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk" (Financial Times Series), about how voodoo banking continues to generate massive phony profits.Economonitor Profile - Das

Episode 257 [02.03.2012] Andy Bichlbaum
Of TheYesMen.org, an organization for "impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Our targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else." Website, book and movie (The Yes Men Fix the World). TheYesMen.org

Episode 255 [28.02.2012] Karl Denninger
Founder of conservative blog Market-Ticker.org, the Commentary on The Capital Markets, and one of the early members of the Tea Party movement. He was CEO of MCSNet in Chicago, one of the area's first Internet providers.Market-Ticker.org

Episode 254 [25.02.2012] David Hales
Senior research fellow at The Open University in the UK. Does research at the overlap between computer science and social science. He writes: "Recently I have become interested in how open distributed systems might provide novel ways to support financial functions without the need for centralised institutions such as banks."CFPM.org - Profile

Episode 253 [23.02.2012] Shir Hever
Economic researcher in the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour. Shir Hever specialises in researching the economic aspect of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. He is author of recent book "The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation." (See also Episodes 181, 113, 69)InMinds.com - Profile

Episode 249 [14.02.2012] James Howard Kunstler
American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency (2005), where he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. He has written a science fiction novel conjecturing such a culture in the future, World Made by Hand in 2008.Kunstler.comKunstler.com - Blog

Episode 248 [11.02.2012] Francine McKenna
Twenty-five years experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad.ReTheAuditors.com

Episode 247 [09.02.2012] Dr. Yanis Varoufakis
Says he is "a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist." Has taught at the University of Essex, the University of East Anglia, the University of Cambridge, University of Sydney, University of Glasgow, University of Athens, etc. Says: "My break from Britain occurred in 1987 on the night of Mrs Thatcher's third election victory. It was too much to bear."http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/

Episode 245 [04.02.2012] Daniel Collins
Author of TheChinaMoneyReport.com, an investment publication for people interested in Chinese equities traded in Hong Kong, Mainland China, or in the United States. 15 years experience as a private investor in Mainland China.TheChinaMoneyReport.com

Episode 243 [31.01.2012] Ned Naylor-Leyland
Investment Director, Cheviot Asset Management. Began his career in 2001 at Neilson Management, later moving to Smith & Williamson (formerly NCL Investments) in 2003 where he was an Investment Manager. Ned joined Cheviot in July 2008 and is Advising a specialist Precious Metals fund.Cheviot Asset Management

Episode 236 [14.01.2012] Michael Krieger
Investment adviser and blogger, runs Krieger Asset Management. His mission is to write and educate people across the country on what is happening and how to protect against it. Michael Krieger (Liberty Blitzkrieg)

Episode 235 [12.01.2012] Nomi Prins
Author, journalist, speaker and a senior fellow at Demos. Most recent novel is "Black Tuesday" - "A vivid tableau of New York on the brink of the Stock Market Crash of 1929." Also author of "Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America" (The New Press, October 2004), a devastating exposé into corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception. See also Episodes 149, 117.NomiPrins.com

Episode 234 [10.01.2012] Amir Taaki
British video game and computer software developer, founder of BitcoinConsultancy, a collaborative effort to take bitcoin outside the world of tech geeks and hobbyists into the real world. It is currently developing an enterprise-ready version of bitcoin, named Bitcoin Enterprise. BitcoinConsultancy

Episode 233 [07.01.2012] David Morgan
A precious metals aficionado with degrees in finance, economics and engineering, he created the Silver-Investor.com website and originated The Morgan Report, "Money, Metals and Mining, from David Morgan, a monthly publication covering economic news, the financial health of the global economy, imminent currency problems and reasons for investing in precious metals. Silver-Investor.com

Episode 228 [27.12.2011] Thomas C. Mountain
"The last white man living in Eritrea," was in a former life, educator, activist and alternative medicine practitioner in the USA.ModernGhana.com - Profile

Episode 227 [24.12.2011] William K. Black
American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law - Profile

Episode 226 [22.12.2011] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 223 [15.12.2011] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 222 [13.12.2011] Detlev Schlichter
Writer and Austrian School economist. He had a 19-year career in financial markets, working at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a derivatives trader and portfolio manager in Frankfurt and London between 1990-98 before moving to Mercury Asset Management in London. He is the author of "Paper Money Collapse - The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown" (John Wiley & Sons, September 2011).Paper Money Collapse

Episode 221 [10.12.2011] Satyajit Das
Author of "Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk" (Financial Times Series), about how voodoo banking continues to generate massive phony profits.Economonitor Profile - Das

Episode 219 [06.12.2011] Joshua M Brown
New York City-based investment advisor (at Fusion Analytics) for high net worth individuals, charitable foundations, retirement plans and corporations. Is author of Backstage Wall Street: An Insider's Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments.The Reformed Broker

Episode 217 [01.12.2011] Karl Denninger
Founder of conservative blog Market-Ticker.org, the Commentary on The Capital Markets, and one of the early members of the Tea Party movement. He was CEO of MCSNet in Chicago, one of the area's first Internet providers.Market-Ticker.org

Episode 216 [29.11.2011] Mark O'Byrne
Works with GoldCore, a precious metals specialist that has evolved into a globally focused Wealth Management Service (regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland). Writes articles in Irish and international financial newspapers, journals and magazines. GoldCore - Profile

Episode 215 [26.11.2011] Danny Schechter
Journalist, author, television producer and an independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about economic and media issues. He is executive editor of MediaChannel.org, the world's largest online media issues online network and blogs on his website The News Dissector. His latest films are PLUNDER: The Crime of Our Time (2010), "Barack Obama, People's President" (2009), and "IN DEBT WE TRUST: America Before The Bubble Bursts," (2007) an investigation of the impact of credit and debt on American society.The News Dissector

Episode 214 [24.11.2011] Gregor Macdonald
Writes full time for the energy and economics blog, Gregor.us. Holds a B.A. in English and Social Anthropology from Denison University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Believes the world has entered another, historic energy transition. He has written for the Financial Times of London, The Oil Drum, and had his work republished in the English edition of Pravda.ru. Gregor.us

Episode 212 [19.11.2011] Barry Ritholtz
One of the few strategists who saw the coming housing implosion and derivatives mess far in advance. Writes a blog called The Big Picture, "a compendium of what a Wall Street money manager is looking at, thinking about, and writing on." In 2010, he was named by The Daily Beast as one of the 15 Most Important Economic Journalists in the United States.Ritholtz.com

Episode 210 [14.11.2011] Mike Maloney
Founder of GoldSilver.com, Mike Maloney is a nationally recognized authority on monetary history, economics, and financial literacy. Widely regarded as a leading expert on economic cycles, he has demonstrated to audiences throughout the United States that economic cycles are real and that investing correctly for each phase of the economic cycle is a road to true wealth. A dedicated audiophile, his revolutionary stereo designs are on permanent display at the Royal Victoria & Albert Museum in London.GoldSilver.com

Episode 209 [12.11.2011] Senator Mike Gravel
A former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska who served two terms from 1969 to 1981. He tried to end the draft during the Vietnam War, suffered corporate and personal bankruptcies amid poor health and has been a passionate advocate of direct democracy.MikeGravel.us

Episode 208 [09.11.2011] James G. Rickards
American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital (www.tangentcapital.com) and author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis." Currency Wars

Episode 207 [07.11.2011] Professor Constantin Gurdgiev
Head of Research for St. Columbanus AG, and the Adjunct Lecturer in Finance, Trinity College, Dublin.True Economics

Episode 206 [04.11.2011] James Howard Kunstler
American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency (2005), where he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. He has written a science fiction novel conjecturing such a culture in the future, World Made by Hand in 2008. Kunstler.comKunstler.com - Blog

Episode 205 [02.11.2011] Birgitta Jonsdottir
A member of parliament of Althing, the Icelandic parliament, formerly representing the Citizens' Movement, but now representing The Movement. She is also a poet, writer, artist, editor, publisher, activist and has used the internet for these activities.This Is - Profile

Episode 203 [28.10.2011] Gail Tverberg
An actuary interested in finite world issues - oil depletion, natural gas depletion, water shortages, and climate change. To this brief bio she adds: "The financial system is also likely to be affected." Our Finite World

Episode 202 [26.10.2011] John Perry Barlow
A founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and author of "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," an influential early paper on the appropriateness of governing the rapidly growing internet.Electronic Frontier Foundation

Episode 201 [25.10.2011] Dr Stephen Leeb
American economist and author of many books, including Red Alert: How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life.Leeb's Market Forecast

Episode 199 [19.10.2011] Michael Betancourt
Critical theorist, art and film historian, and animator. His principal published works focus on the technologies of visual music, new media art and theory, and formalist study of motion pictures.Aesthetic Hazard

Episode 197 [14.10.2011] Michael W. Hudson
Covers business and finance for the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit journalism organization. Is author of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America - and Spawned a Global Crisis. The Investigative Fund - Profile

Episode 196 [12.10.2011] Ellen Brown
Author of eleven books, including the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy (with Dr. Lynne Walker) and, recently, Web of Debt - an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back.EllenBrown.comWeb of Debt

Episode 195 [11.10.2011] Charles Hugh Smith
Novelist (including "I-State Lines" and "Kama Sutra Cadillac"), economic commentator, and author of the online blog OfTwoMinds.com. He has also written An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times.OfTwoMinds.com

Episode 194 [07.10.2011] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 193 [06.10.2011] Satyajit Das
Author of "Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk" (Financial Times Series), about how voodoo banking continues to generate massive phony profits.Economonitor Profile - Das

Episode 192 [03.10.2011] Steve Woolfe
City of London spokesman for the UK Independence Party. He is a barrister and General Counsel for an international hedge fund manager.Steven Woolfe - Blog

Episode 191 [01.10.2011] Roseanne Barr
Actress, comedian, producer, director and writer and a supporter of the #occupywallstreet movement. And a would-be presidential candidate in 2011.Roseanne World

Episode 190 [28.09.2011] Nomi Prins
Author, journalist, speaker and a senior fellow at Demos. Most recent novel is "Black Tuesday" - "A vivid tableau of New York on the brink of the Stock Market Crash of 1929." Also author of "Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America" (The New Press, October 2004), a devastating exposé into corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception.NomiPrins.com

Episode 189 [26.09.2011] Joe Weisenthal
Founder of Business Insider, a U.S. business/entertainment news website launched in February 2009. It is the overarching brand beneath which fall the Silicon Alley Insider (launched May 16, 2007) and Clusterstock (launched March 20, 2008) verticals.Business Insider

Episode 188 [23.09.2011] Ned Naylor-Leyland
Investment Director, Cheviot Asset Management. Began his career in 2001 at Neilson Management, later moving to Smith & Williamson (formerly NCL Investments) in 2003 where he was an Investment Manager. Ned joined Cheviot in July 2008 and is Advising a specialist Precious Metals fund.Cheviot Asset Management

Episode 187 [22.09.2011] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 182 [09.09.2011] Dr David Graeber
American anthropologist and anarchist who is Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Author of Debt: The First 5000 Years.The White Review - Interview

Episode 181 [08.09.2011] Shir Hever
Economic researcher in the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour. Shir Hever specialises in researching the economic aspect of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. He is author of recent book "The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation." (See also Episodes 253, 113, 69)InMinds.com - Profile

Episode 179 [03.09.2011] Mike Maloney
Founder of GoldSilver.com, Mike Maloney is a nationally recognized authority on monetary history, economics, and financial literacy. Widely regarded as a leading expert on economic cycles, he has demonstrated to audiences throughout the United States that economic cycles are real and that investing correctly for each phase of the economic cycle is a road to true wealth. A dedicated audiophile, his revolutionary stereo designs are on permanent display at the Royal Victoria & Albert Museum in London.GoldSilver.com

Episode 178 [01.09.2011] Isa Blumi
Assistant Professor, New York University. Author of 2003 book entitled: "Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire."
Isa is now embarking on two new projects that explore the interactive dynamics in the nineteenth century South China Sea and Arabia.Georgia State U. - Profile

Episode 177 [30.08.2011] Daniel Collins
Author of TheChinaMoneyReport.com, an investment publication for people interested in Chinese equities traded in Hong Kong, Mainland China, or in the United States. 15 years experience as a private investor in Mainland China.TheChinaMoneyReport.com

Episode 176 [24.08.2011] Chris Martenson
Trained as a scientist, having completed both a PhD and a post-doctoral program at Duke University, specializing in neurotoxicology. Was Vice President of a large, international Fortune 300 company, then changed his lifestyle by downsizing his home and managing his own investments. Runs ChrisMartenson.com - Economy, Energy, Environment. Author of "The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment." (see also: Episode 142)ChrisMartenson.com

Episode 175 [23.08.2011] Catherine Austin Fitts
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner, Catherine was one of the first to warn of an approaching housing bubble. Her prediction that a 'strong dollar policy' would ultimately lead to a weakened federal credit is currently being proven correct. Runs the Solari Report, a private briefing for subscribers by bridge call with Catherine and her guests focused on current financial and precious metal markets, geopolitical events as well as risk issues and opportunities impacting personal wealth. The Solari Report

Episode 174 [18.08.2011] Richard Heinberg
Author of "The End of Growth." An American journalist and educator who has written extensively on ecological issues, including oil depletion. He is the author of at least ten books.PostCarbon.org - Profile

Episode 173 [16.08.2011] William K. Black
American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law - Profile

Episode 172 [11.08.2011] Peter Schiff
American investment broker, author, financial commentator, and was a candidate in the 2010 Republican primary for the United States Senate seat from Connecticut. (See also Episodes 276, 143, 88, 39)Euro Pacific CapitalPeter Schiff - Blog

Episode 171 [04.08.2011] Teri Buhl
Wall Street investigative reporter who has written for the Greenwich Time, Hearst Newspapers, Forbes Magazine, Forbes.com, Fortune.com, The Atlantic.com, New York Magazine, New York Post, Trader Monthly, Housingwire, ML-Implode, The Business Insider, and Dealbreaker. Currently breaks financial news for DealFlow Media's publications. TeriBuhl.com

Episode 169 [01.08.2011] James Howard Kunstler
American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency (2005), where he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. He has written a science fiction novel conjecturing such a culture in the future, World Made by Hand in 2008. Kunstler.comKunstler.com - Blog

Episode 168 [27.07.2011] Stefan Molyneux
Blogger, essayist, author, and host of the Freedomain Radio series of podcasts.Freedomain Radio

Episode 166 [21.07.2011] Sandeep Jaitly
Student of Professor Antal E. Fekete. Runs BullionBasis, described as "the practical representation of the works of Professor Antal E. Fekete by his student Sandeep Jaitly."Fekete ResearchBullionBasis

Episode 165 [18.07.2011] Amir Taaki
British video game and computer software developer, founder of BitcoinConsultancy, a collaborative effort to take bitcoin outside the world of tech geeks and hobbyists into the real world. It is currently developing an enterprise-ready version of bitcoin, named Bitcoin Enterprise. BitcoinConsultancy

Episode 162 [07.07.2011] Dr. Michael Hudson
President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).Michael-Hudson.com

Episode 161 [04.07.2011] Dr. Yanis Varoufakis
Says he is "a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist." Has taught at the University of Essex, the University of East Anglia, the University of Cambridge, University of Sydney, University of Glasgow, University of Athens, etc. Says: "My break from Britain occurred in 1987 on the night of Mrs Thatcher's third election victory. It was too much to bear."http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/

Episode 158 [22.06.2011] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 157 [21.06.2011] Demetri Kofinas
Economics blogger and the financial radio host/producer for "Covering the Spread," which airs on 91.5FM WNYE New York (broadcasting across NY, NJ, CT, and PA). Writes blog called "Covering Delta."Covering Delta

Episode 155 [13.06.2011] David Morgan
A precious metals aficionado with degrees in finance, economics and engineering, he created the Silver-Investor.com website and originated The Morgan Report, "Money, Metals and Mining, from David Morgan, a monthly publication covering economic news, the financial health of the global economy, imminent currency problems and reasons for investing in precious metals.Silver-Investor.com

Episode 154 [08.06.2011] Rick Falkvinge
A Swedish IT entrepreneur known as the founder and first party leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. He is currently a political evangelist with the party, spreading the ideas across the world.Swedish Pirate Party

Episode 151 [30.05.2011] Jon Matonis
An Austrian School economist from George Washington University focused on expanding the circulation of nonpolitical digital currencies. Career has included senior influential posts at Sumitomo Bank, VISA, VeriSign, and Hushmail. He was chief forex trader for VISA. Writes: "The Monetary Future - At the intersection of free banking, cryptography, and digital currency."The Monetary Future

Episode 150 [25.05.2011] Ned Naylor-Leyland
Investment Director, Cheviot Asset Management. Began his career in 2001 at Neilson Management, later moving to Smith & Williamson (formerly NCL Investments) in 2003 where he was an Investment Manager. Ned joined Cheviot in July 2008 and is Advising a specialist Precious Metals fund.Cheviot Asset Management

Episode 149 [23.05.2011] Nomi Prins
Author, journalist, speaker and a senior fellow at Demos. Most recent novel is "Black Tuesday" - "A vivid tableau of New York on the brink of the Stock Market Crash of 1929." Also author of "Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America" (The New Press, October 2004), a devastating exposé into corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception.NomiPrins.com

Episode 148 [18.05.2011] Gregor Macdonald
Writes full time for the energy and economics blog, Gregor.us. Holds a B.A. in English and Social Anthropology from Denison University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Believes the world has entered another, historic energy transition. He has written for the Financial Times of London, The Oil Drum, and had his work republished in the English edition of Pravda.ru. Gregor.us

Episode 147 [17.05.2011] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 146 [11.05.2011] Eric Sprott
Founder of Sprott Asset Management. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. After establishing Sprott Asset Management Inc. in December 2001 as a separate entity, Eric divested his entire ownership of Sprott Securities to its employees.Sprott Asset Management

Episode 145 [09.05.2011] Mike Maloney
Founder of GoldSilver.com, Mike Maloney is a nationally recognized authority on monetary history, economics, and financial literacy. Widely regarded as a leading expert on economic cycles, he has demonstrated to audiences throughout the United States that economic cycles are real and that investing correctly for each phase of the economic cycle is a road to true wealth. A dedicated audiophile, his revolutionary stereo designs are on permanent display at the Royal Victoria & Albert Museum in London.GoldSilver.com

Episode 144 [04.05.2011] Dr. Kiriakos Tobras
Dr. Tobras and his colleague George Noulas are the originators of a monumental lawsuit filed on April 09, 2010, alleging that foreign speculators, specifically primary syndicators of Greek loans, working alongside domestic enablers within the Greek government and within the Central Bank of Greece, facilitated the manipulation of the Greek bond market for their personal financial gain. (See also Episode 102)StopSpeculators.gr

Episode 142 [27.04.2011] Chris Martenson
Trained as a scientist, having completed both a PhD and a post-doctoral program at Duke University, specializing in neurotoxicology. Was Vice President of a large, international Fortune 300 company, then changed his lifestyle by downsizing his home and managing his own investments. Runs ChrisMartenson.com - Economy, Energy, Environment. Author of "The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment."ChrisMartenson.com

Episode 140 [20.04.2011] Taki Oldham
Director of The Billionaires Tea Party, looking back at the rise Tea Party movement from after the 2010 elections. For "(Astro) Turf Wars," Taki went undercover as a free-market loving Australian university student, creating a fake blog and a fake study grant as part of his cover. He uncovers "the illusion" of the Tea Party being a grass roots movement, showing how it has been manipulated.(Astro) Turf Wars

Episode 138 [14.04.2011] Cory Doctorow
British-Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books.Boing Boing

Episode 137 [12.04.2011] James G. Rickards
American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital (www.tangentcapital.com) and author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis." Currency Wars

Episode 136 [07.04.2011] James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work." Home From Nowhere was a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly. His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do with its mutilated cities. Kunstler.comKunstler.com - Blog

Episode 135 [04.04.2011] Alex Jones
Syndicated radio journalist and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones has been on the front lines of the growing global information war from ground zero to the occult playgrounds of the power-mad elite. His radio show The Alex Jones Show is a nationally syndicated news/talk show based out of Austin, TX. It is syndicated by the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM and FM radio stations across the United States, as well as having a large internet based audience.InfoWars.com

Episode 134 [30.03.2011] Dmitry Orlov
Author of "Reinventing Collapse," first published in 2008 before the financial crisis began later that year. In a new edition Orlov expands on his attempt to convince you that the U.S. is much less prepared for collapse than the Soviet Union ever was.Club Orlov

Episode 133 [29.03.2011] Isa Blumi
Assistant Professor, New York University. Author of 2003 book entitled: "Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire."
Isa is now embarking on two new projects that explore the interactive dynamics in the nineteenth century South China Sea and Arabia.Georgia State U. - Profile

Episode 132 [23.03.2011] Ed Harrison
Founder of Credit Writedowns and a former finance and technology executive with over twenty years of business experience. He is also a regular economic and financial commentator on BBC World News, CNBC Television, Business News Network, CBC Canada, Fox Television and RT Television. He started his career as a diplomat and speaks six languages, a skill he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College. Credit Writedowns

Episode 131 [22.03.2011] Joe Weisenthal
Founder of Business Insider, a U.S. business/entertainment news website launched in February 2009. It is the overarching brand beneath which fall the Silicon Alley Insider (launched May 16, 2007) and Clusterstock (launched March 20, 2008) verticals.Business Insider

Episode 130 [16.03.2011] Michael Betancourt
Critical theorist, art and film historian, and animator. His principal published works focus on the technologies of visual music, new media art and theory, and formalist study of motion pictures.Aesthetic Hazard

Episode 129 [14.03.2011] Richard Heinberg
Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature, The Ecologist, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Z Magazine, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Yes!, Pacific Ecologist, and The Sun; and on web sites such as Alternet.org, EnergyBulletin.net, TheOilDrum.com, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com.PostCarbon.org

Episode 126 [03.03.2011] Anthony Shadid
Foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010.AnthonyShadid.com

Episode 125 [28.02.2011] John Butler
Partner at Amphora Capital. Most recently he was Managing Director and Head of the Index Strategies Group at Deutsche Bank in London, where he was responsible for the development and marketing of proprietary, index-based quantitative strategies for global interest rate markets. Amphora Capital

Episode 123 [22.02.2011] William D. Hartung
Author of "Prophets of War." William D. Hartung is a Senior Research Fellow in the New America Foundation's American Strategy Program. He specializes in issues of weapons proliferation, the economics of military spending, and alternative approaches to national security strategy. From 2007 through early 2011, Mr. Hartung ran the Arms and Security Initiative at New America -- a project that is now part of the Center for International Policy, and that Mr. Hartung continues to lead. New America Foundation - Profile

Episode 122 [17.02.2011] Greg Palast
Author of the New York Times bestseller, "Armed Madhouse" (Penguin Paperback 2007). When Palast, an investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering, turned his skills to journalism, he was quickly recognized as, "The most important investigative reporter of our time" [Tribune Magazine] in Britain, where his first reports appeared on BBC television and in the Guardian newspapers.GregPalast.com

Episode 121 [15.02.2011] Barry Ritholtz
One of the few strategists who saw the coming housing implosion and derivatives mess far in advance. Writes a blog called The Big Picture, "a compendium of what a Wall Street money manager is looking at, thinking about, and writing on." In 2010, he was named by The Daily Beast as one of the 15 Most Important Economic Journalists in the United States.Ritholtz.com

Episode 120 [09.02.2011] Joshua M Brown
New York City-based investment advisor (at Fusion Analytics) for high net worth individuals, charitable foundations, retirement plans and corporations. Is author of Backstage Wall Street: An Insider's Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments.The Reformed Broker

Episode 119 [08.02.2011] Pierre Jovanovic
Author of "Blythe Masters." Pierre Jovanovic traces in this book how the fate of this young Cambridge graduate unwittingly crossed that of hundreds of millions of people made unemployed by the effects of the crisis, simply because all the bankers of the world have listened, fascinated, to the Gospel of Credit Default Swaps to the point that they eventually copy and abusing the "magic" formula.Jovanovic.com

Episode 118 [03.02.2011] Sandeep Jaitly
Student of Professor Antal E. Fekete. Runs BullionBasis, described as "the practical representation of the works of Professor Antal E. Fekete by his student Sandeep Jaitly."Fekete ResearchBullionBasis

Episode 117 [31.01.2011] Nomi Prins
Author, journalist, speaker and a senior fellow at Demos. Most recent novel is "Black Tuesday" - "A vivid tableau of New York on the brink of the Stock Market Crash of 1929." Also author of "Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America" (The New Press, October 2004), a devastating exposé into corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception.NomiPrins.com

Episode 116 [27.01.2011] Michael 'Woody' O'Brien
Pundit and commentator. Says of himself: "(I'm)...living proof that in America, people whose spelling sucks (even with spell check) and punctuation is even worse, can be a big success if they speak well and can do complex math."LuckiestManOnEarth.com

Episode 115 [25.01.2011] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 114 [20.01.2011] David Malone
Author of "The Debt Generation." He has a career spanning nearly twenty years producing and directing documentaries for both the BBC and Channel4. His series Testing God was shortlisted for the Royal Television Society best documentary series and was described by The Times as "moving and startling - as close to poetry as television gets." For the last three years he has has focused on the financial system. His BBC documentary High Anxieties - The Mathematics of Chaos, first broadcast in September 2008, was one of the first films to be made about the financial crisis accurately anticipating the problems that were to unfold in the economy. The Debt Generation was published in November 2010.The Debt Generation

Episode 113 [18.01.2011] Shir Hever
Economic researcher in the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour. Shir Hever specialises in researching the economic aspect of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. He is author of recent book "The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation." (See also Episodes 253, 181, 69)InMinds.com - Profile

Episode 112 [13.01.2011] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 109 [04.01.2011] James Howard Kunstler
American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency (2005), where he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. He has written a science fiction novel conjecturing such a culture in the future, World Made by Hand in 2008. Kunstler.comKunstler.com - Blog

Episode 108 [30.12.2010] Ellen Brown
Author of eleven books, including the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy (with Dr. Lynne Walker) and, recently, Web of Debt - an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back.EllenBrown.comWeb of Debt

Episode 107 [28.12.2010] Afshin Rattansi
Journalist and former Lloyd's of London global catastrophe risk analyst who has worked at the BBC Today programme, Bloomberg, CNN International, Al Jazeera Arabic, the Dubai Business Channel and Press TV. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, New Statesman, Counterpunch, The Oldie, Attitude, Gulf News, Critical Quarterly, and Flaunt magazine. Four of his novels have been published in one volume, The Dream of the Decade, available at www.amazon.com. He is CEO of Alternate Reality Productions Ltd., making television for international satellite broadcasters. Currently, he presents and executive produces Double Standards, a political satire show on Press TV. He commentates from time to time for BBC World Service, Russia Today, Fox News and Al Jazeera.AfshinRattansi.com

Episode 106 [22.12.2010] Mike Maloney
Founder of GoldSilver.com, Mike Maloney is a nationally recognized authority on monetary history, economics, and financial literacy. Widely regarded as a leading expert on economic cycles, he has demonstrated to audiences throughout the United States that economic cycles are real and that investing correctly for each phase of the economic cycle is a road to true wealth. A dedicated audiophile, his revolutionary stereo designs are on permanent display at the Royal Victoria & Albert Museum in London.GoldSilver.com

Episode 104 [16.12.2010] Ed Harrison
Founder of Credit Writedowns and a former finance and technology executive with over twenty years of business experience. He is also a regular economic and financial commentator on BBC World News, CNBC Television, Business News Network, CBC Canada, Fox Television and RT Television. He started his career as a diplomat and speaks six languages, a skill he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College. Credit Writedowns

Episode 103 [14.12.2010] Michael W. Hudson
Staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity, previously worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and as an investigator for the Center for Responsible Lending. The winner of a George Polk Award, Hudson has also written for Forbes, The Big Money, and the New York Times. He edited Merchants of Misery and appeared in the documentary Maxed Out. He lives in Brooklyn.The Investigative Fund - Profile

Episode 102 [09.12.2010] Dr. Kiriakos Tobras
Dr. Tobras and his colleague George Noulas are the originators of a monumental lawsuit filed on April 09, 2010, alleging that foreign speculators, specifically primary syndicators of Greek loans, working alongside domestic enablers within the Greek government and within the Central Bank of Greece, facilitated the manipulation of the Greek bond market for their personal financial gain. (See also Episode 144)StopSpeculators.gr

Episode 101 [07.12.2010] Thor Saari
A member of Iceland's parliament (Althingi) for the Southwest Constituency since 2009. Member of the Committee on General Affairs since 2011. Member of the Committee on the Budget since 2009. Member of the Althingi Special Committee on Constitutional Affairs since 2010.Facebook - Thor Saari

Episode 99 [30.11.2010] Paul Mladjenovic
Author of "Precious Metals for Dummies." Paul Mladjenovic is a national seminar leader, author and consultant. His specialties are investing and home business issues. Since 1981, His company has helped thousands build wealth through nationwide seminars, workshops and investment conferences. Paul's books include Zero-Cost Marketing, The Unofficial Guide to Picking Stocks (Amazon) and Stock Investing for Dummies (Amazon).Prosperity Network

Episode 96 [17.11.2010] Alex Jones
Syndicated radio journalist and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones has been on the front lines of the growing global information war from ground zero to the occult playgrounds of the power-mad elite. His radio show The Alex Jones Show is a nationally syndicated news/talk show based out of Austin, TX. It is syndicated by the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM and FM radio stations across the United States, as well as having a large internet based audience. InfoWars.com

Episode 95 [16.11.2010] Michael Krieger
Of KAM LP. He writes: "We are currently observing the evaporation of what Nazis referred to as "The Big Lie." In very basic terms the concept of The Big Lie is that if you are going to lie you may as well lie big. So big in fact that the majority of well meaning citizenry could never imagine anyone lying on such a grand scale (particularly not their government "officials") so that they don't even question the basis of their own reality. In the case of the United States the Big Lie is that we have a free market capitalist economy. Instead we have a corporatist/fascist economy that enriches three main groups. Wall street financiers, the military industrial complex and large multi-national corporations that don't pay taxes."Michael Krieger (Liberty Blitzkrieg)

Episode 94 [11.11.2010] Kevin Kerr
Kevin is known to newsletter readers around the World and has been an analyst and trading advisor for publications at prestigious publishers like Weiss Research, Dow Jones Newswire. His trade alert services have made him one of the most in demand editors in the industry. Author of "A Maniac Commodity Trader's Guide to Making a Fortune: A Not-So Crazy Road Map to Riches".Kerr Commodities WatchKerrTrade.com

Episode 93 [10.11.2010] David Morgan
A precious metals aficionado with degrees in finance, economics and engineering, he created the Silver-Investor.com website and originated The Morgan Report, "Money, Metals and Mining, from David Morgan, a monthly publication covering economic news, the financial health of the global economy, imminent currency problems and reasons for investing in precious metals. Silver-Investor.com

Episode 92 [10.11.2010] David McWilliams
Irish journalist and economist who has worked as an economist with Central Bank of Ireland and as a banker with UBS bank and the Banque Nationale de Paris. More recently, he has become a broadcaster and documentary-maker with TV3 and RTé, as well as publishing three books, The Pope's Children, The Generation Game, and Follow the Money.DavidMcWilliams.ie

Episode 91 [10.11.2010] James Scaminaci III
Insane blogger and former worker in counter-terrorism. He has written: "It is not too far off the mark to consider Ron Paul a white Christian nationalist." Enough said. (Why does Max give air time to this person??)Political Chili - Profile

Episode 90 [29.10.2010] Reggie Middleton
Runs BoomBustBlog.com. He is an entrepreneurial investor who guides a small team of independent analysts to uncover truths, seldom, if ever, published in the mainstream media or Wall Street analysts' reports. Made the right call on housing, Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.BoomBustBlog.com

Episode 89 [26.10.2010] James Howard Kunstler
American author, social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia and urban development, and the more recent The Long Emergency (2005), where he argues that declining oil production is likely to result in the end of industrialized society as we know it and force Americans to live in smaller-scale, localized, agrarian (or semi-agrarian) communities. He has written a science fiction novel conjecturing such a culture in the future, World Made by Hand in 2008. Kunstler.comKunstler.com - Blog

Episode 88 [21.10.2010] Peter Schiff
American investment broker, author, financial commentator, and was a candidate in the 2010 Republican primary for the United States Senate seat from Connecticut. (See also Episodes 276, 172, 143, 39)Euro Pacific CapitalPeter Schiff - Blog

Episode 87 [19.10.2010] Ellen Brown
Author of eleven books, including the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy (with Dr. Lynne Walker) and, recently, Web of Debt - an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back.EllenBrown.comWeb of Debt

Episode 86 [15.10.2010] Eric Janszen
Economic commentator and former venture capitalist. He founded the financial advisory company iTulip. Janszen wrote an analysis of economic bubbles in a 2008 Harper's Magazine article predicting a future alternative energy bubble bursting in the mid 2010s. Janszen has served as president and CEO of RF control technology company AutoCell Laboratories, Inc., entrepreneur in residence at Trident Capital, president and CEO of Bluesocket, Inc., and managing director of seed stage investment firm Osborn Capital. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Author of "The Post Catastrophe Economy."iTulip.com

Episode 85 [12.10.2010] Barry Ritholtz
One of the few strategists who saw the coming housing implosion and derivatives mess far in advance. Writes a blog called The Big Picture, "a compendium of what a Wall Street money manager is looking at, thinking about, and writing on." In 2010, he was named by The Daily Beast as one of the 15 Most Important Economic Journalists in the United States.Ritholtz.com

Episode 84 [07.10.2010] Oscar Leon
Director and producer of "Once Upon a Time in Arizona." He is a filmmaker who has portrayed some of today's realities in the US and says people are leading a horrible life. He argues people have a different perception of the US and the American Dream has been shattered today. He also holds the US responsible for some of the worst economic problems that continue to grip the world. Meanwhile, Oscar draws a parallel between the past economic miseries in his homeland, Ecuador, and the US, saying the States is treading on the same path.WilliamBowles.info - Profile

Episode 82 [30.09.2010] William "B.J." Lawson
Republican Party politician who ran for the United States House of Representatives in North Carolina's 4th congressional district (seat currently held by David Price) in both the 2008 and 2010 elections.Lawson for Congress - (may no longer be active)

Episode 81 [28.09.2010] Dave Zirin
Named one of the UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World", Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports for the Nation Magazine. He is also the host of Sirius XM Radio's popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. He has been called "the best sportswriter in the United States," by Robert Lipsyte. Shock Doctrine author Naomi Klein called his book Bad Sports "an original and scathing look at how America works."Edge of Sports

Episode 80 [22.09.2010] Joe Weisenthal
Founder of Business Insider, a U.S. business/entertainment news website launched in February 2009. It is the overarching brand beneath which fall the Silicon Alley Insider (launched May 16, 2007) and Clusterstock (launched March 20, 2008) verticals.Business Insider

Episode 77 [14.09.2010] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 75 [07.09.2010] Mark "Bicyclemark" Fonseca Rendeiro
Portuguese-American, activist-journalist based in Amsterdam. At college he brought a Mongoose mountainbike to campus - hence the name. CitizenReporter.org

Episode 74 [03.09.2010] Micha Kat
Anti-NWO Dutch journalist and whistleblower specializing in legal issues with emphasis on accountancy. After studying classical languages and a brief career as a teacher at a school in Rotterdam, he switched to journalism. He writes for Lawyers Journal and various websites and has also written four books. KlokkenLuiderOnline - Articles (in Dutch)

Episode 73 [31.08.2010] Kate Sheppard
Environmental journalist at Mother Jones. Covers energy and environmental politics in Mother Jones' Washington bureau. She was previously the political reporter for Grist and a writing fellow at The American Prospect.MotherJones.com - Articles

Episode 72 [26.08.2010] Paul McLeary
Journalist specializing in defense, intelligence. Senior Editor of Defense Technology International magazine. Before that, was a staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review, and has also written about books, the media, politics and military affairs for Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, Center for American Progress, The Forward, Mother Jones, the New York Sun, Salon, the Guardian UK, the Weekly Standard, CBS.com, and the Christian Science Monitor. Paul McLeary - Blog

Episode 69 [17.08.2010] Shir Hever
Economic researcher in the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour. Shir Hever specialises in researching the economic aspect of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. He is author of recent book "The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation." (See also Episodes 253, 181, 113)InMinds.com - Profile

Episode 68 [12.08.2010] William K. Black
American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black's expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of "control fraud", in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a "weapon" to commit fraud. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law - Profile

Episode 66 [06.08.2010] Captain Paul Watson
31 years at the helm of the world's most active marine non-profit organization - Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In 1978, with financial support from Cleveland Amory of the Fund for Animals, the Society purchased its first ship (a British sea trawler Westella) and renamed it the Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd has embarked on over 200 voyages covering many of the world's oceans and defending and saving defenseless marine life all along the way.SeaShepherd.org - Captain Paul Watson

Episode 65 [03.08.2010] George Hemminger
Former co-founder of NIA, National Inflation Association - "an organization that is dedicated to preparing Americans for hyperinflation and helping Americans not only survive, but prosper in the upcoming hyperinflationary crisis". Admitted to a "pump and dump" penny share scam, in an interview with Peter Schiff. The other co-founder is Jonathan Lebed, whose Wikipedia entry describes him as "an American notorious for using internet technology to hype stocks."Inflation.us

Episode 64 [28.07.2010] Michael Krieger
Investment adviser and blogger, runs Krieger Asset Management. His mission is to write and educate people across the country on what is happening and how to protect against it. Michael Krieger (Liberty Blitzkrieg)

Episode 63 [27.07.2010] Ned Naylor-Leyland
Investment Director, Cheviot Asset Management. Began his career in 2001 at Neilson Management, later moving to Smith & Williamson (formerly NCL Investments) in 2003 where he was an Investment Manager. Ned joined Cheviot in July 2008 and is Advising a specialist Precious Metals fund.Cheviot Asset Management

Episode 62 [22.07.2010] Gregor Macdonald
Writes full time for the energy and economics blog, Gregor.us. Holds a B.A. in English and Social Anthropology from Denison University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Believes the world has entered another, historic energy transition. He has written for the Financial Times of London, The Oil Drum, and had his work republished in the English edition of Pravda.ru. Gregor.us

Episode 61 [20.07.2010] Ben Davies
Co-founder and CEO of Hinde Capital, also a partner of the growing independent macro-research company Variant Perception.Hinde Capital

Episode 60 [16.07.2010] Stefan Molyneux
Blogger, essayist, author, and host of the Freedomain Radio series of podcasts.Freedomain Radio

Episode 59 [14.07.2010] Karl Denninger
Founder of conservative blog Market-Ticker.org, the Commentary on The Capital Markets, and one of the early members of the Tea Party movement. He was CEO of MCSNet in Chicago, one of the area's first Internet providers.Market-Ticker.org

Episode 58 [08.07.2010] Teri Buhl
Wall Street investigative reporter who has written for the Greenwich Time, Hearst Newspapers, Forbes Magazine, Forbes.com, Fortune.com, The Atlantic.com, New York Magazine, New York Post, Trader Monthly, Housingwire, ML-Implode, The Business Insider, and Dealbreaker. Currently breaks financial news for DealFlow Media's publications.TeriBuhl.com

Episode 57 [06.07.2010] Luc Saucier
French lawyer working in New York City. 20 years experience in international corporate and intellectual property law. SaucierAvocats.com

Episode 56 [01.07.2010] Joshua M Brown
New York City-based investment advisor (at Fusion Analytics) for high net worth individuals, charitable foundations, retirement plans and corporations. Is author of Backstage Wall Street: An Insider's Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments.The Reformed Broker

Episode 55 [29.06.2010] Ellen Brown
Author of eleven books, including the bestselling Nature's Pharmacy (with Dr. Lynne Walker) and, recently, Web of Debt - an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." She shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back.EllenBrown.comWeb of Debt

Episode 54 [24.06.2010] Gary Rivlin
A former New York Times journalist and author of "BROKE, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business."GaryRivlin.com

Episode 53 [22.06.2010] John Authers
Financial Times' Senior Investment Columnist, responsible for the weekly Long View and other columns on markets and investment. Author of "The Fearful Rise of Markets."FT.com - Profile

Episode 52 [17.06.2010] Cedric de Serigny
From the "School of Economic Warfare in Paris" (Ecole de Guerre Economique), a small institution founded in 1997 by retired French army general Jean Pichot-Duclos and his partner, business intelligence specialist Christian Harbulot. Ecole de Guerre Economique

Episode 50 [10.06.2010] Vincent Fernando
Writer for Money Game on the Business Insider. He's an adviser to the multi-strategy fund Railay Capital Partners, was Citi's Asia shipping analyst, and once hunted down small caps in Thailand for Macquarie. Speaks/write Thai.Business Insider - Profile

Episode 49 [08.06.2010] Dr. Michael Hudson
President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (1968 & 2003), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971).Michael-Hudson.com

Episode 48 [03.06.2010] Edward Harrison
Founder of Credit Writedowns and a former career diplomat, investment banker and technology executive with over twenty years of business experience. He is also a regular economic and financial commentator on BBC World News, CNBC Television, Business News Network, CBC, Fox Television and RT Television. Credit Writedowns is a news and opinion site that aims to bring a well-informed view of finance, economics, markets, and foreign policy into the mainstream consciousness.Credit Writedowns

Episode 47 [01.06.2010] Heidi Moore
New York bureau chief and Wall Street correspondent for Marketplace, from American Public Media. She has also written for Slate's TheBigMoney.com.Marketplace.org - Profile

Episode 45 [25.05.2010] James G. Rickards
American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 35 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He is Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital (www.tangentcapital.com) and author of "Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis." Currency Wars

Episode 43 [18.05.2010] Jim Rogers
Legendary investor. Also an author and financial commentator, frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and most publications dealing with the economy or finance. Jim Rogers Investments

Episode 42 [13.05.2010] Damon Vrabel
Post-neoclassical economic philosopher. For 2 years blogged frequently on Council on Renewal, looking for spiritual renewal in a post-rationalist world.Council on Renewal

Episode 41 [11.05.2010] Paul Midler
Author of "Poorly Made in China," a travelogue through the world of Chinese manufacturing.PaulMidler.com

Episode 40 [07.05.2010] Michael Krieger
Investment adviser and blogger, runs Krieger Asset Management. His mission is to write and educate people across the country on what is happening and how to protect against it. Michael Krieger (Liberty Blitzkrieg)

Episode 39 [04.05.2010] Peter Schiff
American investment broker, author, financial commentator, and was a candidate in the 2010 Republican primary for the United States Senate seat from Connecticut. (See also Episodes 276, 172, 143, 88)Euro Pacific CapitalPeter Schiff - Blog

Episode 38 [29.04.2010] Max Fraad Wolff
Teaches economics in the New School University Graduate Program in International Affairs. His work can be seen at the BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera English, Bloomberg TV, The Wall Street Journal and many other outlets.Huffington Post - Profile

Episode 36 [22.04.2010] Afshin Rattansi
Award-winning journalist and author who is the CEO of Alternate Reality Productions Ltd. which makes television for international broadcasters. He also helped launch the Dubai Business Channel and has worked for the BBC Economics Unit.AfshinRattansi.com

Episode 35 [20.04.2010] Joe Weisenthal
Founder of Business Insider, a U.S. business/entertainment news website launched in February 2009. It is the overarching brand beneath which fall the Silicon Alley Insider (launched May 16, 2007) and Clusterstock (launched March 20, 2008) verticals.Business Insider

Episode 34 [15.04.2010] Birgitta Jonsdottir
A member of parliament of Althing, the Icelandic parliament, formerly representing the Citizens' Movement, but now representing The Movement. She is also a poet, writer, artist, editor, publisher, activist and has used the internet for these activities.This Is - Birgitta Jonsdottir

Episode 33 [13.04.2010] Dean Baker
American macroeconomist and co-founder (with Mark Weisbrot) of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Was previously a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. He blogs on Huffington Post.Huffington Post - Profile

Episode 31 [06.04.2010] William "B.J." Lawson
Republican Party politician who ran for the United States House of Representatives in North Carolina's 4th congressional district (seat currently held by David Price) in both the 2008 and 2010 elections.Lawson for Congress - (may no longer be active)

Episode 30 [01.04.2010] Ryan Grim
Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post and a former staff reporter with Politico.com and Washington City Paper.Huffington Post - Profile

Episode 29 [30.03.2010] Mark Schapiro
Senior correspondent at the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, California, and the author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products, and the Harper's article, "Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon Trading Shell Game".Harpers.org - Profile

Episode 27 [23.03.2010] Gregory White
Editor of Money Game and Europe for Business Insider. He has reported from Doha, Cairo, and London and has had work published by The Huffington Post and MSNBC.com.Business Insider - Profile

Episode 26 [18.03.2010] David McWilliams
Irish journalist and economist. He has worked with as an economist with Central Bank of Ireland and as a banker with UBS bank and the Banque Nationale de Paris. Now a broadcaster and documentary-maker with TV3 and Raidió Teilifís éireann (RTé). His books include: The Pope's Children, The Generation Game, and Follow the Money.DavidMcWilliams.ie

Episode 24 [11.03.2010] Joe Weisenthal
Founder of Business Insider, a U.S. business/entertainment news website launched in February 2009. It is the overarching brand beneath which fall the Silicon Alley Insider (launched May 16, 2007) and Clusterstock (launched March 20, 2008) verticals.Business Insider

Episode 23 [09.03.2010] Greg Palast
Investigative journalist and author of Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. He is best known in his native USA as the journalist who, for the Observer (UK), broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to his brother George.GregPalast.com

Episode 22 [04.03.2010] David DeGraw
US journalist and author of "The Economic Elite versus the People of the United States of America."DavidDegraw.org

Episode 21 [02.03.2010] Kevin Connor
Co-director of the Public Accountability Initiative, a non-profit research organization focused on corporate and government accountability, and co-founder of LittleSis.org, an "involuntary facebook of powerful Americans" that is collaboratively edited and maintained by volunteer analysts. LittleSis tracks information on over 40,000 people and organizations with special influence over the political process, including politicians, corporate executives, and lobbyists.LittleSis.org

Episode 20 [25.02.2010] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 19 [23.02.2010] Karl Denninger
Founder of conservative blog Market-Ticker.org, the Commentary on The Capital Markets, and one of the early members of the Tea Party movement. He was CEO of MCSNet in Chicago, one of the area's first Internet providers.Market-Ticker.org

Episode 18 [18.02.2010] Paul Craig Roberts
American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics.PaulCraigRoberts.org

Episode 17 [16.02.2010] Reverend John Strain
Founder of Save Our Savers, a campaign in the UK to force governments to stop writing policy to encourage speculation. Also parish priest, ethics lecturer and Adviser for Work, Economics and Business to the Diocese of Guildford.Save Our Savers

Episode 16 [11.02.2010] Sergei Guriev
Professor of Economics and the Rector of the New Economic School in Moscow. Also President of the Center for Economic and Financial Research at the New Economic School. Research interests include contract theory, corporate governance, labor mobility, political economics, economics of development and transition.New Economic School - Profile

Episode 14 [04.02.2010] John Perkins
Chief Economist at a major international consulting firm, John Perkins advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations. He is author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list) and Hoodwinked, a blueprint for a new form of global economics.JohnPerkins.org

Episode 13 [03.02.2010] Barry Ritholtz
One of the few strategists who saw the coming housing implosion and derivatives mess far in advance. Writes a blog called The Big Picture, "a compendium of what a Wall Street money manager is looking at, thinking about, and writing on." In 2010, he was named by The Daily Beast as one of the 15 Most Important Economic Journalists in the United States.Ritholtz.com

Episode 12 [28.01.2010] Fred Harrison
British author, economic commentator and corporate policy advisor, notable for his stances on land reform. His blog contains lively articles about the Euro crisis, predatory banks and other topics.FredHarrison.com

Episode 11 [26.01.2010] Nomi Prins
Author, journalist, speaker and a senior fellow at Demos. Most recent novel is "Black Tuesday" - "A vivid tableau of New York on the brink of the Stock Market Crash of 1929." Also author of "Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America" (The New Press, October 2004), a devastating exposé into corporate corruption, political collusion and Wall Street deception. See also Episodes 288, 235, 149, 117.NomiPrins.com

Episode 10 [21.01.2010] Ann Minch
A California woman who said she was fed up with Bank of America for raising her credit card interest rate from about 13% to 30% and who subsequently started a (personally) successful Debtors' Revolt.Mahalo.com - Article

Episode 9 [19.01.2010] Janet Tavakoli
American author and structured finance expert based in Chicago. She has had three books published on credit derivatives, structured finance, and the 2008 global financial crisis.Tavakoli Structured Finance

Episode 8 [14.01.2010] Birgitta Jonsdottir
A member of parliament of Althing, the Icelandic parliament, formerly representing the Citizens' Movement, but now representing The Movement. She is also a poet, writer, artist, editor, publisher, activist and has used the internet for these activities.This Is - Birgitta

Episode 6 [31.12.2009] Dr. Ravi Batra
Professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and the author of five international best sellers, including The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos.RaviBatra.com

Episode 4 [10.12.2009] Professor Steve Keen
Runs DebtDeflation.com "Analysing the Global Debt Bubble." Associate Professor in economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. He classes himself as a post-Keynesian..."DebtDeflation.com

Episode 2 [26.11.2009] Jane Hamsher
US film producer, author, and blogger who is founder and publisher of the politically progressive blog FireDogLake.FireDogLake

Episode 1 [20.11.2009]Danny Schechter
Journalist, author, television producer and an independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about economic and media issues. He is executive editor of MediaChannel.org, the world's largest online media issues online network and blogs on his website The News Dissector. His latest films are PLUNDER: The Crime of Our Time (2010), "Barack Obama, People's President" (2009), and "IN DEBT WE TRUST: America Before The Bubble Bursts," (2007) an investigation of the impact of credit and debt on American society.The News Dissector

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